TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES
- Organizations create and use teams, partnerships and alliances to:
-address both minor and major problems
-capitalize on significant opportunities
Organizations create teams, partnerships and alliances both internally with employees and externally with other organizations.
- Collaborating system - supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information.
- Organizations form alliances and partnerships with other organizations based on their core competency
- Core
competency – an organization’s key strength, a business function that it does
better than any of its competitors
- Core
competency strategy – organization chooses to focus specifically on its core
competency and forms partnerships with other organizations to handle
nonstrategic business processes
- Information technology can make a business partnership easier to establish and manage
- Information
partnership – occurs when two or more organizations cooperate by integrating
their IT systems, thereby providing customers with the best of what each can
offer
- The Internet has dramatically increased the ease and availability for IT-enabled organizational alliances and partnerships
COLLABORATION SYSTEMS
Collaboration solves specific business tasks such as
telecommuting, online meetings, deploying applications, and remote project and
sales management
- Collaboration system – an
- IT-based set
of tools that supports
- the work of
teams by facilitating
- the sharing
and flow of information
- Two categories of collaboration
(i) Unstructured
collaboration (information collaboration) - includes document exchange, shared
whiteboards, discussion forums, and e-mail
(ii) Structured
collaboration (process collaboration) - involves shared participation in
business processes such as workflow in which knowledge is hardcoded as rules
(ii) Content management system
(iii) Workflow management system
(iv) Groupware management system
- Collaboration systems include:
(ii) Content management system
(iii) Workflow management system
(iv) Groupware management system
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
- Knowledge management (KM) – involves capturing, classifying, evaluating, retrieving and sharing information assets in a way that provides context for effective decisions and actions
- Knowledge management system – supports the capturing and use of an organization’s “know-how”
EXPLICIT AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE
- Intellectual and knowledge-based assets fall into two categories;
1. Explicit
knowledge – consists of anything that can be documented, archived, and
codified, often with the help of IT
2. Tacit knowledge – knowledge contained in
people’s heads
- The following are two best practices for transferring or recreating tacit knowledge
1. Shadowing –
less experienced staff observe more experienced staff to learn how their more
experienced counterparts approach their work
2. Joint problem
solving – a novice and expert work together on a project
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
- Content management system (CMS) – provides tools to manage the creation, storage, editing and publication of information in a collaborative environment
- CMS marketplace includes;
(i) Document management
system (DMS)
(ii) Digital assets
management system (DAM)
(iii) Web content
management system (WCM)
WORKING WIKIS
- Wikis – web-based tools that make it easy for users to add, remove, and change online content
- Business wikis – collaborative web pages that allows users to edit documents, share ideas or monitor the status of a project
WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
- Work activities can be performed in series or in parallel that involves people and automated computer systems
- Workflow – defines all the steps or business rules, from beginning to end, required for a business process
- Workflow management system – facilitates the automation and management of business processes and controls the movement of work through the business process
- Messaging-based workflow system – sends work assignments through an email system
- Database-based workflow system – stores documents in a central location and automatically asks the team members to access the document when it is their turn to edit the document
GROUPWARE SYSTEMS
Groupware technologies
- Groupware – software that supports teams interaction and dynamics including calendaring, scheduling and videoconferencing
WEB CONFERENCING
- Web conferencing – blends audio, video and document-sharing technologies to create virtual meeting rooms where people “gather” at a password-protected website
VIDEOCONFERENCING
- Video conference – A set of interactive telecommunication technologies that allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously
INSTANT MESSAGING
- Email is the dominant form of collaboration application, but real-time collaboration tools like instant messaging are creating a new communication dynamic
- Instant messaging – types of communications service that enables someone to create a kind of private chat room with another individual to communicate in real-time over the internet
- Instant messaging application
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